Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth-century [electronic resource] : English women writers and the public sphere / Katharine Gillespie.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: xii, 272 pOther title: - Domesticity and dissent in the 17th-century
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
- English literature -- Puritan authors -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Dissenters, Religious -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Puritan women -- England -- Intellectual life
- Dissenters, Religious, in literature
- Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Literature and the war
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- PR435 .G55 2004eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Sabrina versus the state -- 1. "Born of the mother's seed": liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism -- 2. A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state -- 3. Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophecies of Elizabeth Poole -- 4. The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the "rise" of the sovereign individual -- 5. Improving God's estate: pastoral servitude and the free market in the writings of Mary Cary.
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